Category Archives: Nigel Thrift

Eduardo Mendieta (1963-2025)

Posted on December 31, 2025 by stuartelden

My dear friend Eduardo Mendieta died earlier this month. He taught in the philosophy departments of the University of San Francisco, Stony Brook University and Penn State. There is an announcement from Penn State here, and the news is also reported … Continue reading →

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Nigel Thrift, The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities – Policy Press, October 2022

Posted on October 25, 2022 by stuartelden

Nigel Thrift, The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities – Bristol University Press, October 2022 Are British research universities losing their way or are they finding a new way?  Nigel Thrift, a well-known academic and a former Vice-Chancellor, explores recent … Continue reading →

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Nigel Thrift, Killer Cities – Sage, February 2021

Posted on February 4, 2021 by stuartelden

Nigel Thrift, Killer Cities – Sage, February 2021 Killer Cities uses a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail to tell the story of how and why cities cause mass animal death and, in the process, … Continue reading →

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Rita Felski and Stephen Muecke (eds.), Latour and the Humanities – Johns Hopkins University Press, September 2020

Posted on October 29, 2020 by stuartelden

Rita Felski and Stephen Muecke (eds.), Latour and the Humanities – Johns Hopkins University Press, September 2020 How does the work of influential theorist Bruno Latour offer a fresh angle on the practices and purposes of the humanities? In recent … Continue reading →

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Books received – review work for Polity and Sage

Posted on March 27, 2017 by stuartelden

A pile of recent books received in recompense for review work, and a couple of others sent by Polity from their Key Contemporary Thinkers series.

Posted in Ash Amin, Axel Honneth, Jacques Lacan, Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, Martin Heidegger, Nigel Thrift, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Where to start with reading Peter Sloterdijk?

Posted on April 14, 2014 by stuartelden

[The most recent version can be found here.] Where should you start with reading Peter Sloterdijk? I have previously done this with Henri Lefebvre, and Chathan Vemuri asked me the same question for Sloterdijk. This is my attempt at answering this, largely … Continue reading →

Posted in Axel Honneth, Books, Eduardo Mendieta, Marie-Eve Morin, My Publications, Nigel Thrift, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Publishing, Society and Space | 19 Comments

Nigel Thrift and Steven Koonin discuss urban science and big data

Posted on April 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Nigel Thrift, Vice Chancellor of University of Warwick, and Steven Koonin, Director of New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress, partners in this endeavour, discussed the emerging field of applied urban science and informatics, the opportunities it presents, and … Continue reading →

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Nigel Thrift on the spaces of academic offices and studies

Posted on October 1, 2013 by stuartelden

In the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Books received

Posted on July 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Amin and Thrift’s Arts of the Political; two old books by Elizabeth Grosz; the latest Sloterdijk books in English and German; the new Foucault lecture course; John Protevi’s Life, War, Earth (which I wrote an endorsement for); and the new … Continue reading →

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Nigel Thrift on the future of Big Ed(ucation)

Posted on December 7, 2012 by stuartelden

In the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here’s a couple of key paragraphs: It is possible to see a new political economy of higher education coming into existence born out of the huge increase in students around the world, as well … Continue reading →

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